When exactly, did we start...

Playing by third-world rules?

-- TORONTO -- Lushan Lu's home renovation project doesn't involve installing new hardwood floors, or fancy new faucets for a bathroom.

A few years ago he subdivided his large Scarborough home into an illegal rooming house, creating 18 bedrooms and eight bathrooms.

And another disturbing manifestation of that, is... "When exactly did the police come to be regarded as the enemy?"

Toronto Police have released security camera images of two men leaving the scene of Hou Chang Mao's murder.

Hao was buried on Jan. 25. At the time, police had not heard from any of the more than 100 people at the murder scene.

Toronto's infamous code of silence strikes yet again.

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LAST WORD: We don't need... no steenkin' rules!

Mr. Wang, now a government employee in Beijing, said he was "very nervous" when he discovered that his own personal X-rays would be submitted to the Canadian embassy to support another person's emigration application.

"To reassure me, my boss told me it was very common and many people do this," he said. "He was very calm about it, as if it was normal."